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Perfect Digital Skin

Posted by michael on from the now-with-benzoyl-peroxide dept.

ILMfan writes "BBC Technology is describing a new graphics algorithm for creating perfect virtual skin. This technique by graphics wizard Henrik Jensen (the guy who invented photon mapping) is already being used in movies (it was used on Gollum in Lord of the Rings, and it will be used in the soon-to-be-released van Helsing movie). And perhaps more exciting is that several game companies are planning on using it for their next generation games. So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3? Of course there are endless other opportunities for virtual humans with perfect skin :-)"

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  1. Old news... by ankit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Henrik Wann Jensen also got a technical Oscar earlier this year. This work is actually quite old. See the original Siggraph 2001 paper here.

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